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EPA needs to listen to farmers

 

Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly says EPA’s Clean Water Rule lacks common sense.  “Instead of the EPA coming on high from Washington, DC telling us what to do – they listen to us,” he says.  “They need to listen to our farmers and find out from us how to best make sure the waters in our state are clean.  We focus on the right targets instead of scatter-shot things that the EPA doesn’t even understand in DC.”

Donnelly tells Brownfield he hopes last week’s decision by a North Dakota judge to temporarily block the implementation of the Clean Water rule gets the attention of Congress.  “It was a clear message that a federal court of the United States said that this rule doesn’t pass the test of common sense,” he says.  “I’m very hopeful that both Democrats and Republicans will join together and get the legislation that I’ve co-authored moving forward so we can have common sense put back in place.”

Donnelly says EPA needs to go back to the drawing board and work with the agricultural community to put a Clean Water Rule in place that makes sense.